Nimmo's v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
AT a General Court holden on the 26th day of April, 1786, the Commonwealth obtained a judgment against William Nimmo, Sheriff of Princess Anne County, for 208/. 10s. Ad. for the balance of the one per cent, tax on * land, collected by him for the year 1784, and 3\L 3 s. 6 1-2 d. , for damages thereon, according to law, amounting in the J whole to 239/. 15s. 10 1-2d. with interest thereon from the lOdr day of Nov. 1784, until payment, and costs.
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AT a General Court holden on the 26th day of April, 1786, the Commonwealth obtained a judgment against William Nimmo, Sheriff of Princess Anne County, for 208/. 10s. Ad. for the balance of the one per cent, tax on * land, collected by him for the year 1784, and 3\L 3 s. 6 1-2 d. , for damages thereon, according to law, amounting in the J whole to 239/. 15s. 10 1-2d. with interest thereon from the lOdr day of Nov. 1784, until payment, and costs. On the 12th day of July, 1799, a scire facias issued upon the said judgment against fames Nimmo, his surviving executor, who appeared and pleaded “…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Tucker.
This was a supersedeas to a judgmeiit of the General Court, on a scire facias issued on behalf of the Commonwealth, fitly, 1799, against the executor of Nhnmo, formerly Sheriff oí Princess Anne County, to revive a judgment against his testator in April, Í78C. It appears from an exhibit, made part of the bill oí exceptions, that the personal estate of die testator, (except a very few articles of household furniture, and one slave who had run away with the British army during the revolutionary war.) including his slaves, was sold in the testator’s life-time, under a venditioni…
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